Italian authorities thought they knew who killed Meredith Kercher in November 2007.

So they arrested Amanda Knox , a 20-year-old American college student who had been sharing a flat in Perugia, Italy, with the victim.

And Knox—who became the target of an international feeding frenzy far hungrier for salacious details than the truth—was subsequently convicted of murder, as was Raffaele Sollecito , an Italian computer engineering student she was dating at the time, and Rudy Guede , an Ivorian national living in Italy who said Kercher invited him home with her the night she died.

Knox spent almost four years behind bars before an appellate court found her and Sollecito not guilty in 2011. They were retried and convicted in 2014—Knox in absentia, having long since returned to

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